Camcontacts
(not Camcontact or Cam Contact) is like a clone of iFriends (see ifriends review) by people (Exhibitionists and Voyeurs
both) who didn't like iFriends.

Although Camcontacts is now well established (started in Nov 00) - and probably building up
on ifriends in terms of number of girls, it doesn't really seem to have the
growth rate of other sites like Cum TV or
stream mate.

However now that things have settled down in terms of growth they are
adding lots of features in like cam2cam (one2one they call it) with two way sound as well.
Though there is quite a bit of debate in their forums about this feature
because the hosts there are trying to offer specific things only if viewers
go into one2one, which has a higher per minute cost.

Not all the hosts do this, in fact not even many, and the camcontacts
management have said they will crack down on it. The feature is
advertised as, and they intend to keep it as, just a chance to be in private
with one girl without other viewers distracting her from you.

Hosts are broken down into a variety of different categories, and I think
they invented a few of them like "a little shy" which are now used by other
sites.

Non Adult

Friends and Family

Make New Friends

Long Term or Marriage

Adult

Girls Home Alone - A little shy

Girls Home Alone - Not so shy

Girls Home Alone - Instant Action

Girl-Girl

Girl-Boy

Couples

Groups (3 or more)

Gender Benders (TV, TS, CD)

Boys Home Alone - Straight

Boys Home Alone - Gay

Boy-Boy

Escorts & Massage

Dungeon

Video PLAYBACK of PAST session

I think that covers just about everything don't you! Of course some
of the more obscure categories don't have a lot of hosts online at any one
time, but you'll generally find at least one. Even "Long Term or
Marriage" has 20 or so, though I wouldn't take the category name too
literally. Boy-boy is the hardest section to fill and sometimes is
empty.

You can also browse through cams by country if you are looking for
someone near your location. Click "search" in the left border then
"View by country" in the middle of the screen above the search box.
View by language and works in the same way; this time giving you choices
from English through the obvious Latvian and Romanian to Japanese(!), Arabic
(!!) to Hebrew (find a nice Jewish girl for you me boy?). This is not
entirely accurate though, I saw one person who apparently claimed to speak
every language which is a large exaggeration I'm sure unless you say "ahhh
ahhh, oooo ooo" counts as valid in any language!

Text chat is free in every section, just browse around until you find
someone who appeals then click the text chat button. This gets you a
static picture of the person to look at together with a text chat window
where you can get started in conversation. No signup at all is needed
for this.

Video chat however requires a login and per minute fees, there is no free
video on Camcontacts. It can be pretty cheap though, you'll see some
hosts advertising $0.69/minute which is almost as low as
extasycams.

You'll need a "register for free viewer account" first which will need
your credit card details to "verify your age" etc, usual thing. This
account will allow you to see some more archive pictures than you would
otherwise see; all the explicit ones are screened and not visible to
unregistered guests.

Once you have an account of course you can then get into paid chat which
will be billed to your card "discretely" as CC Network.
The way billing works at Camcontacts is quite different from most other
sites. With the majority of sites you "buy credits" and load a bunch
of money into their system, which leaves your bank/card immediately they
stays on their system until you spend it.

With CamContacts though they use "Continuous Billing" which is a way of
saying that once they have your CC number they bill you immediately you do
any chat. Advantage of this is that you don't have to leave cash lying
around in their site before you use it, and you don't get interrupted by
being out of funds, but the bad side is that you can end up spending more
than you intended as the money just drains out of your credit card as you
chat.

Camcontacts also run "myfabsite.com" which is where any chathost can put her own
web pages which is similar to the free hosting deal that is provided by
ifriends. I believe
Camz also provides some free hosting. I don't know any other site that provides free hosting, let
me know if you do.

That last one is interesting isn't it? Addresses one of the
underlying drives of webcam viewers -- to actually meet and have a
relationship with ladies they meet on cam sites. Not to say this
doesn't happen (I know a couple of married couples like this), but it
has to be very rare. Cam chathosts are performers providing a
service for the most part.

On the whole the per minute charges are
much less than sites like Flirt4 free, and
probably average a little under ifriends. Of course there is a large
range though so you'll find some higher priced hosts as well.

Uniquely
amoung major sites they cover chargebacks, so if the customer refuses to
pay, the host still gets their payment. Sounds nice for the host but
this is a risky business model for camcontacts to be giving out money for
shows for which they have not been paid!

Camcontacts

Pro for Exhibitionists

Growing steadily. You can get free hosting for your
own website to promote yourself.

Con for Exhibitionists

May end up being under cut by discount hosts

Pro for Voyeurs

Lots of girls to see, guys too if that's your thing,
similar to CumTV.

10 May 09: If you speak German
only, you should go to the German version of Camcontacts
here.
Spanish
version is available too.

1 Sep 08: have you tried webcam chat on
mobile phone? Now you can go to wap.camcontacts.com, download their
chat software and start chatting anywhere, even in bathroom!

27-31 Aug 08: "Guess Who?" game for
viewers to guess the screen-name of a given pic. For every $5 you
spend, a letter will be given to provide hints. First prize is $5,000
Camcontacts' credit.

20-24 Mar 08: Easter Party - 5 lucky
viewers will be chosen every hour during these 5 days to receive free
credits to chat with their favorite girls.

18 Jun: Camcontacts has introduced an
online card game called Strip HiLo for viewers and chathosts to play.
The ultimate target is to remove the chathost's clothes when she guesses
wrong. If the viewer loses, then the whole game will restart.
Watch out! It can be addictive.

18Sep: There is still a lot of
debate going on over at CamContacts about the not-so-new "one2one" feature.
In case you missed out before, this feature provides a private chat room --
instead of the group chat which was previously the only choice at
CamContacts. Some "shy" hosts are offering to strip only in one2one,
which is against CamContact rules; but the CC management have promised to
get things under control.

10 Dec: Holiday season again and they
have introduced their "Holiday
Hotties" which is a three minute free promotion. But watch out, at
the end of three minutes it goes straight into charged chat with only a text
notification on the screen.

29 Feb:
Camcontacts is finally catching up. They now provide sound and
CamToCam such that the chathosts can see the viewers' reactions if the
viewer has a cam. Another site that provides sound and cam2cam is
imLive.

12 Feb: I noticed that
Camcontacts has
more than a dozen girls under 'Long Term and Marriage'. There
is no shortage of sexy pretty looking girls and most of them look like
Eastern European. If you want a supermodel to be your girlfriend this
may be your choice.

25 Jan:
Every webcam chat site needs to keep coming up with new ideas to attract
viewers and camcontact, one of the major
established sites, is no exception. They have recently launched a new category
--
Girls Home Alone - Instant Action -- which I think is either exactly what
most people want, or completely the opposite of what others want! But choices
are great, so if you want to chat first, or to jump straight into the action you
can now explicitly choose the right sort of host.

30 Dec: Oops, looks like I jumped too fast and spread rumors too!
The latest I hear is that camcontacts is
experiencing a DDOS attack and they are working with their network provider to
get on-line again soon. Maybe nothing to do with those fake spams at all!
Though both these thing do seem to show that they have enemies -- I guess some
people are unhappy they are so successful! Anyway, if you can't get
through to them because of their problem then the two most similar sites you can
try are imlive
and ifriends.

29 Dec: A very Not Merry Christmas for the people over at
camcontact. They have been down for two
days and rumor has it that their offices were raided and all equipment
confiscated. If true then I would guess this is related to the fake emails
about their being child porn on their site which have been circulating.
The internet is a great place for hoaxes, and it sounds to me as though one of
their competitors or someone else with a grudge has decided to put them out of
businesses.

Occasionally, you can find young fresh girl like this one on Camcontacts: